REVIEWS
“Cuartetango is a string quartet through which Leonardo Suárez Paz intends to convey all the tango rage and the aggressive nuances of tango with the mere aid of two violins, a viola and a cello, the chamber band most widely used by leading composers, an analogy to what the Turtle Island String Quartet did with jazz.”
Tango Today in New York, www.tangodata.gov
“With ‘Escualo,’ which Piazzolla wrote for his favorite violins Fernando Suarez Paz, listeners… catapult their imaginations and re-live Suarez Paz’s infamous violin virtuosity by receiving the gifts through Fernando’s son, Leonardo Suarez Paz. Leonardo plays with the same intense passion and clarity heard a generation ago on his father’s recordings.”
All Music Review, Barnes & Noble
“Leonardo possesses a unique spirit and is a virtuoso extraordinaire on the violin… the spirit of the age inhabits him. By this I mean he is a citizen of the world, a modern man in the truest sense. In fact, he shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there.”
Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
“It’s an Argentine miracle in Harlem when this jazz violinist performs in St. Nicks.”
Gabriel Senanes, Director, Teatro Colon - interviewed in Clarin (Buenos Aires newspaper)
“Suarez Paz’s father, a brilliant tango violinist, had been one of Piazzolla’s principal collaborators, and from the first bar it was clear that the father and the son were made of the same stuff.”
Jazziz Magazine
“The mix of dignity and beauty… had my heart in my throat.”
Vancouver Sun
“Brilliant!”
The New York Times
“I admire Leonardo’s creativity in crossing the borders and combining tango and jazz. He is a truly international artist. We had great fun playing in Birdland!”
Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist
“It is Leonardo Suarez Paz’s enchanted, inspired and creative soul that invades the warm balconies of this tango concert and come to greet us with a dreaming gesture. An adventurer of laborious species, he makes his violin recite with expressive virtuosity, and from the other sort, that is also pretty, stems a poetry that is about life, and he rhymes his battles and his ecstasies, with shades that are the result of knowing how to live, putting money in the basement and love in the place where builders put the branch that marks the house is about to be completed. Because it is very much of Tango this talented exhibition enjoys angels and devils, so that nothing goes unnoticed in the pleasure of a growing audience that already knows about Leonardo and the warm admiration that he is given in the United States.”
Horacio Ferrer – Poet, President of the National Academy of Tango, Argentina, twice Nobel Prize Nominee
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